Whip-socket



(No Model.)

F. BAUMGARTNER.

WHIP SOCKET.

No. 277,197. 7 p

Patented May 8,1883.

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FREDERICK BAUMGAETNEE, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WH l P-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,197, dated May 8, 1883.

Application filed February 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK BAUMGART- NEE, of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in whip-sockets; and it consists in the combination of a suitable band which is to be passed around the rail of the dash either before or after the dash has been covered, a yoke which is attached directly to the socket by means of a screw, and a clamping screw or bolt by means of which the ends of the bands are made to close over through the yoke, and thus fasten the two rigidly together, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to devise a means for attaching a whip-socket readily and quickly to the dash-board, and which will require no skilled labor either to apply or remove.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view, showing the band and the yoke separately.

A represents the dash-board, and B the whip socket, both of ordinary construction.

Passing around the rail of the dash-board be-.

fore it is covered, where it is desired to attach a socket provided with my fastening device,-is a band, C, which has its ends passing outward through asuitableopeningthatis made through the covering of the dash sufficiently far to allow a clamping screw or bolt, E, to be passed through them for the purpose ofdrawing the ends more or less closely together. Fastened to the socket itselt by means of a clamping screw or bolt, D, is the yoke F. This yoke may either be of the shape shown or any other that may be preferred, and is provided with the ears G, on its outer side, for the clamping screw or bolt to pass through. Through the center of the yoke is made an opening sufficiently large to allow the ends of the band to be drawn into it from opposite sides by means of the clamping screw, bolt, or its equivalent, E. As these two ends are drawn together the band istightened not only around the rail of the dash, but the ends are made to clamp over .the bottom portion of the yoke, so as to unite the two parts. In case the dash has already been covered and it is desired to attach my fastening device, the band will be passed around the outer side of the rail and its covering, and the ends will then extend through slits made in the covering for that purpose. The only difference made in this latter case is that the band shows upon the front side of the dash-board, wherev it would not show if the band were applied before the dasher was covered.

The socket may be fastened to the dash by hinging the band to one end of the yoke, or by riveting'it to the same, or making it in one piece and drawing 'one end over the edge by a screw, bolt, or its equivalent.

Having thus described my invention, I claima l. A fastening device for whip-sockets, consisting of a band which is passed around a rail of the dash, and which has perforated ends, a yoke which is attached to the socket, and which has an opening through it, and a clamping bolt or screw which is made to draw the perforated ends of the hand through the yoke, substantially as shown.

2. The combination of the band C, having a hole through each of its ends, and which is passed around the rail of the dash, the yoke F, which is clamped or bolted to the socket B by the screw D, and which yoke has an opening through one end, and the clamping-bolt E, substantially as set forth.

3. The perforated yoke F, which is fastened directly to the socket B by means of a screw or bolt, D, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aftix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK BAUMGARTNER. Witnesses:

W. HYsoN, GEORGE H. ELLEEY. 

